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Does this remove the option to appeal? From my knowledge a retrial is the same court based on circumstances to be unfair while an appeal is for moving up the co
by buugs 17y ago
Does this remove the option to appeal? From my knowledge a retrial is the same court based on circumstances to be unfair while an appeal is for moving up the court system. This article seems to use the words otherwise, maybe the swedish court system is different.
- sp332 17y agoAlthough they have reached the limit of the Swedish system, they are continuing to escalate their case by taking it to the European Court of Human Rights. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/pirate-bay-retrial-denied-judge-declared-unbiased.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/pirate-bay-r...
- lucumo 17y agoIt doesn't say anything about the possibility of appeal of the original verdict. Just that the decision of the "bias-judge" can't be appealed. (And apparently, they're going to fight that in the European courts.)
- stse 17y agocorrect, both parties have appealed the previous verdict, and there will be at least one other trial. If the court would have found the judge bias they would have had to retake the previous trial. Edit: The Local is a good source for English news about Sweden: http://www.thelocal.se/20280/20090625/ http://www.thelocal.se/20280/20090625/